HaNa Ju-Rin JAPANESE RESTAURANT

Hana Jurin is one of the local gems in Crows Nest. I have been to the restaurant a few times with family and friends. Raw sashimi will always be my favourite at any Japanese restaurant. Thoroughly enjoyed the food at Hana Jurin.

Despite HaNa Ju Rin being a well established Crows Nest restaurant, scoring a seat at their sushi bar still feels like an accomplishment. After all, you’re taking up one of just ten of the evening’s opportunities to place yourself in the capable hands of Tomoyuki Matsuya for his Omakase Sushi Course $132/head). Occupying one of the best seats in the house, you will watch your meal unfold in flowing yet economical movements of this second generation sushi master. Fat, lightly charred slices of Fremantle octopus are drizzled with truffle oil, and then dragged at will through tiny mounds of pepper and salt. The tender, meaty flesh helps to sate your initial hunger, while they get your drinks organised.For me that’s a bamboo tokkuri of Chiyomusubi Junmai Daiginjo $15/180ml). Pretty and gentle, this sake is just the ticket to accompany our appetisers, which include a pot of Japanese plum jelly encasing fresh prawn and green chilli. The flash of Matsuya san’s knives clues you in that lustrous fishes are next on your dining agenda. The 10 piece sashimi course introduces you to the day’s catch – tuna and chutoro), snapper, trevally, imperador, alfonsino, bar cod, salmon, kingfish and mackerel before they’re expanded upon in the...

Have always loved coming here! Beautiful Sushi Sashimi with a wonderful Master at the counter. Teppanyaki is also good but the fantastic Edomame style sushi is the main attraction here. Often, there are also many fantastic off-menu daily specials which I also love. Service can be slow at times so make sure you are not in a rush. There have been a few times of late where sushi sashimi has not been made available to customers seated at tables which makes the food offerings at the tables much more limited. Hopefully this will be addressed in the future so I can bring family and friends and enjoy all the wonderful food on offer.

North Sydney is a place where quite a few quality and authentic Japanese restaurants gather. We went there on a weekend and everywhere was packed. So we waited till after 1300 and finally got bar seats here at HaNa Ju-Rin. It was lovely coz we can eat and watch the chef making his famous seafood rice at the same time. Dishes we like: Chirashi Sushi Set, Special Lunch Box...<br/ <br/ Check out our blog for the food hunting video

Pretty good resto with a great chirashi bowl thats great value for money<br/ <br/ The bowl takes a while to come out as does all the other food, dont think they have enough staff so wlhad to wait long periods of time for our food and to get service.<br/ <br/ Salmon head is average, not that great imo and better alternatives <br/ <br/ The beef was ok, not as marbly as i thought it was and a little disappointing considering its rated best beef in the world.<br/ <br/ Overall a decent resto although slow service and price puts a damper on their rating